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The Language of Othering in a Diverse Europe / edited by Marta Falkowska and Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
- Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture ; 44
- Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2025
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination in language--Europe.
- Discrimination in language.
- Other (Philosophy)--Social aspects--Europe.
- Other (Philosophy).
- Other (Philosophy)--Political aspects--Europe.
- Intergroup relations--Europe.
- Intergroup relations.
- Group identity--Europe.
- Group identity.
- Other (Philosophy) in mass media.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (370 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores how language is used to create division and discrimination in diverse European societies by emphasizing differences in ethnicity, race, national identity, beliefs, or appearance. The authors analyze how public discourse—particularly in political and media narratives—shapes and reinforces an “us vs. them” mindset. They examine words and expressions that denigrate or marginalize specific groups in Polish, German, Czech, Slovak, and Croatian, and observe how certain communities are also reclaiming terms that were once hurtful. The analyses of linguistic strategies employed in the process of othering demonstrate that the concept of othering can be effectively applied to linguistic data. Contributors are: Dagmara Banasiak, Marta Chojnacka-Kuraś, Marta Falkowska, Jadranka Gvozdanović, Milena Hebal-Jezierska, Agnieszka Karlińska, Anna Kołos, Marie Kopřivová, Marek Łaziński, Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz, Agnieszka Mikołajczuk, Iva Petrak, Jiří Rejzek, Lucie Saicová Římalová, Łukasz Wnuk, and Magdalena Zawisławska.
- Contents:
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Othering and Language: An Introduction
- Marta Falkowska and Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz
- Part 1 Naming for Othering in a Diachronic Perspective
- 1 Othering Construed and Maintained in Discourse
- Jadranka Gvozdanović
- 2 We are my ‘us’ and They are migranti ‘migrants’, emigranti ‘emigrants’, přistěhovalci ‘immigrants’, uprchlíci ‘refugees’, and Others
- Othering in the Context of Migration in Czech
- Lucie Saicová Římalová, Marie Kopřivová, and Jiří Rejzek
- Part 2 Naming for Othering in an Identity Debate
- 3 Naming the Other in Croatian Purist Discourse: A Study of Croatian Online Forum Debates
- Iva Petrak
- 4 Polish Neologisms cebulak ‘onioner’ and fajnopolak ‘cool-o-Pole’ as Signs of Othering within the Polish National Community
- Dagmara Banasiak and Łukasz Wnuk
- Part 3 Naming for Othering as a Strategy of Stigmatization
- 5 Ethnic Names in Translation as a Measure of Their Stigmatizing Potential in the Target Language
- A Parallel Corpus Study
- Marek Łaziński
- 6 Teachers (on Strike) as “the Others” in Polish Media Discourse
- Contempt Speech against Teachers in Media Articles and Accompanying Comments (Results of a Pilot Study)
- Agnieszka Mikołajczuk
- 7 Linguistic Strategies of Ethnic Othering and Exclusion on the Polish Social Networking Service Wykop.pl
- Anna Kołos and Agnieszka Karlińska
- 8 Troubled Neighborhood: Ethnophaulisms Referring to Ukrainian People in Contemporary Polish
- Marta Falkowska
- Part 4 Naming for In-group Purposes
- 9 Marking a Difference vs. Naming for Othering: Marginalized Groups’ Terms for Dominant Majorities
- The Case of Polish Deaf Writing about the Hearing
- Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz
- 10 I’m not Obese, I’m Fat! Reclamation of Words as a Strategy for Building Group Identity in the Polish Fat People Discourse
- Magdalena Zawisławska and Marta Chojnacka-Kuraś
- 11 Naming the Sides of the Israel–Hamas Conflict in Czech, Slovak, and Polish Texts
- Milena Hebal-Jezierska
- Afterword
- Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz and Marta Falkowska
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-74322-7
- OCLC:
- 1532841773
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004743229 DOI
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